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|The Cut - Spring 2025
How a one-stop shop for everything from cashmere sweaters to caviar seduced a generation of jaded shoppers.

The morning light shines through your flax-colored curtains made from 100 percent European linen. You jump out of your dusty-mauve sheets (also linen) and slip into a soft ivory robe (bamboo jersey). After showering and drying off with your ivory bath towels (Turkish cotton), you pull out a pan (nontoxic ceramic) to fry some eggs and slice your toast with a serrated knife (Damascus steel). You mix water (in a beaded tumbler) with a pouch of electrolytes (zero sugar) and brew some coffee in your French press (stainless steel). Then it's time to get dressed: You and your daughter opt for matching ivory fisherman sweaters (100 percent Mongolian cashmere)—she pairs hers with a miniskirt (100 percent washable silk), while you go for a trouser (wrinkle-free ponte), loafer mules (Italian calfskin), and a pair of earrings (freshwater pearls). Thank God you stocked up on gold bars (24 karat) before the tariffs kick in.
All of this stuff, everything you need to outfit a picture-perfect life, can be purchased from Quince, a slick yet approachable online store where the prices are always discounted but nothing ever goes on sale. Short for quintessentials, Quince is a one-stop dupe shop for a new generation of discerning, albeit weary, consumers, mostly millennials who have been burned too many times by sketchy Amazon sellers and fast-fashion impulse buys. They aspire to a tastefully understated beige lifestyle of safe, classic status symbols-sans the logos and markups that typically accompany them. Come for the $50 cashmere crewneck sweaters you heard about in a podcast ad; stay for the 365-day return policy and unending stream of surprising new product launches. Luggage! Vitamins! Royal Osetra caviar and artificial Fraser-fir Christmas trees, just in time for the holiday season!
This story is from the The Cut - Spring 2025 edition of New York magazine.
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